Tobacco-free-youth’ is a befitting theme for the anti-tobacco initiatives of World No Tobacco Day as thefirst puff of tobacco taken during youth, most often continues till the last breath, The Day, seeks to continuethe fight against tobacco products, by attacking the root of the problem – To STOP advertisements and publicity of tobacco products and to focus on youth as the starting point of the fight against tobacco.

The word Tobacco is derived form the Native American word ‘tabago’, representing a Y-shaped pipe used to sniff tobacco power. Originally grown in South and Central America, the deadly plant is used in many forms such as bidis, cigarettes, cigars, pipes, kreteks, clove cigarettes, snuff and smokeless cigars. According to WHO statistics, it has been projected that 50% of people who smoke today (approximately 650 million people) would be killed by tobacco.

Despite years of research on CFS, it has not been possible to pinpoint the exact cause of this strange and complex disorder. It is believed that chronic fatigue syndrome is a manifestation of autoimmune disorder, a condition in which the body’s immune cells recognise an individual’s own cells to be non-self and destroy it. Consistent with the above belief, may patients with CFS have been found to have high levels of circulating antinuclear autoantibodies, that cause self-destruction.

Depression is one of the most common mental disorders affecting approximately 340 million people in the world. No one is immune from depression - it occurs in people of all social classes, all countries and all cultural settings. For some people, a combination of many factors may be causing clinical depression. For others, a single factor may be triggering the illness.

Smoking is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Smoking still remains one of the leading causes of preventable death. Smoking has the dubious distinction of affecting all the systems from head to foot. Continuous exposure to smoking leads to cancer and cardiovascular risks, besides blood pressure, stroke, impotence, premature aging and respiratory infections. Smoking during pregnancy leads to serious health problems to the newborns.